Upcoming CAST Show – Diary of Anne Frank
The CAST performing arts program at Julian Middle School will present “The Diary of Anne Frank” at 7:30 p.m. on April 24 and 25.
The play is a fitting finale for this year’s CAST season theme – we are more alike than we are unalike. “The Diary of Anne Frank” is based on the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by young Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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Tickets are available in advance through the CAST website at www.op97.org/CAST or may be purchased at the door. Please contact Kathy Simon at 708-524-7848 or ksimon@op97.org for more information.  The play will be performed in the auditorium at Julian, located at 416 S. Ridgeland Ave. in Oak Park.

Irving Student Council Food Drive

Student Council is sponsoring a school-wide food drive called: Irving’s “Can” Do Challenge.  Let’s help the OPRF Food Pantry reach their goal of 100,000 points. When they reach their goal, the “Can Do Community Challenge” will donate and additional $25,000 to the food pantry. Many schools and organizations in Oak Park are working together. Please see the attached flyer to see how Irving can help earn points. Thank you!

Irving Food Drive

Classroom Coin Challenge!

Do you want to win books for your class?  Suggest books for Ms. Noonan to pick for our library? Help give children in our community their first books?  Then get ready for the

Classroom Coin Challenge!

 Monday, April 13 – Thursday, April 16

                         Bring your loose change to your class next week and compete to see which homeroom can raise the most money!

The winning class will get to come to the Book Fair with their teacher the week of April 20th and use some of the funds raised to pick out books for their class and make some suggestions to Ms. Noonan for books for her to pick out for our library.  Should we get more mystery books?  More sports books?  You get to decide!  These books will get a bookplate honoring the winning class.

Students will also help to select books that our school will donate to Parenthesis Family Center–a local  group that provides a variety of programs to families with young children.  In addition, Scholastic Books will match our monetary donation by giving books to two non-profit organizations, Kids in Need Foundation and Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc.  These organizations help schools and libraries in both impoverished areas and areas destroyed by natural disasters, such as the Oklahoma and Missouri cities affected by recent years’ tornados.

NO FOREIGN COINS, PLEASE

Questions?  Contact the Book Fair Chairperson:

Stephanie Hartman  gremlin44@gmail.com

Irving Book Fair Coming Soon! Volunteers NEEDED!!

It’s time for the Irving Book Fair–Mon, April 20-Fri, April 24.

We are looking for another great crew of volunteers this year! We need people for set up, stapling and collating flyers, supervising classroom visits, working public sales hours, watching volunteers’ kids on the playground, and packing up the sale. We also need people the week before the fair April 13-16 to count coins from the classroom coin collection competition. Even if you can only work an hour, we’d love to have you, especially at dismissal!

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Can’t come and help because of kids or your schedule? We have jobs you can do at home: making posters, baking treats for the teacher preview and our volunteers, or processing leftover teacher wish list items for the online book fair.  Just email Stephanie  at gremlin44@gmail.com.

Our Book Fair is such a great success due to our wonderful volunteers! Our kids get so excited when they see the Book Fair truck pull up, and watching their enthusiasm as they select books is really heart warming.

If you have any questions, contact Stephanie Hartman chair gremlin44@gmail.com

Meredith Farster, Book Fair co-chair meredithfarster@gmail.com